True love is not for the faint-hearted.

Wisdom is not about accumulating knowledge, but about seeing through all knowledge.

To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Kindness is the solution to all of life's problems.

Meditation is not about getting away from it all. It's about getting into it all.

The essence of Buddhist practice is to reduce our selfishness and to work for the benefit of others.

The key to transformation is not to fight with our experience but to open to it with awareness.

Start from where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

The experience of emptiness engenders compassion.

Our task is to learn to see clearly what is happening in each moment, rather than be lost in our reactions and judgments.

The four foundations of mindfulness are not separate practices but different aspects of the same practice of clear awareness.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

We deal with our mind from morning until evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

The true understanding is that the practice itself is enlightenment.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

When concentration is developed, wisdom arises. When wisdom arises, one becomes disenchanted with the five aggregates.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

If you want to know the past, look at the present. If you want to know the future, look at the present.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Don't be a bodhisatta; don't be an arahant; don't be anything at all. Being something makes you suffer.

Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.

Buddhas and ordinary beings are not two. Enlightenment and delusion are not different paths.

The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

The person who clings to nothing of the past, present and future, who has no attachment and no aversion, has no conceptual imprints.

The trouble is, you think you have time.

The most important thing in life is to know death is coming and to prepare for it.

The path is the goal. Every step of the journey is the journey.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

The state of mind that exists when you sit in the right posture is, itself, enlightenment.

Karma is not fate but the law of moral causation, showing us that we are the architects of our own destiny.